Per the Red Wings, no surprises here:
UPDATE: The #RedWings have extended qualifying offers to Lucas Raymond, Moritz Seider, Jonatan Berggren and Joe Veleno.
— Detroit Red Wings (@DetroitRedWings) June 30, 2024
The #RedWings did not extend a qualifying offer to Jared McIsaac.
Now Berggren, Veleno, Raymond and Seider can reject their “QO’s,” and the only ways to prevent offer sheets on any restricted free agents is for either the player or the team to elect salary arbitration.
As the Hockey News’s Connor Eargood notes, it’s too bad that McIsaac is going out the door:
McIsaac’s case was a little interesting because despite being a skilled, mobile defenseman when the Red Wings picked him, he struggled with injuries throughout his time under contract and could never quite establish a rhythm. McIsaac signed a one-year prove-it deal with Detroit last offseason, but he ended up going on loan to Switzerland and then to the AHL’s Providence Bruins because of a logjam on the Grand Rapids blue line. While a lack of a qualifying offer doesn’t mean he can’t return to the Detroit system, McIsaac is most likely going to sign with a different team, NHL or other.
